L-dopa chords by Laura Stevenson

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
C majorC          C majorC     A7A7
I'm a bright, white egg and I incubate
   A minorAm  G+G          C majorC
In a warm, yellow light in the winter
C majorC                A7A7
And I'll hatch on a snow-covered morning
    A minorAm     G+G        C majorC
And no one will be awake to see it happen

Verse 2:
      A minorAm         G+G
There is no history, there's no expectation
   A7A7  G+G         C majorC
Just warm, yellow light on my skin
C majorC                  A7A7
And I'm blessed by my mother, though I'll never know her
     G+G         C majorC
And I'll never be lonesome again

Verse 3:
C majorC               A7A7
I'm a bright entertainer in a silent theater
 A minorAm   G+G   C majorC
I wearily quarry into
   C majorC              A7A7
And my mother she stands where the characters dance
     A minorAm      G+G       C majorC
From the light at the height of the room

Verse 4:
C majorC     A minorAm
And every night I repeat the phrases
    G+G            C majorC
Just to see if she predicts the changes
    C majorC           A7A7
And I'd die for a word if it's all she'd afford
    A minorAm    G+G    C majorC
But she closes up knowing it

Bridge:
A7A7   C majorC   G+G    A7A7      G+G
Where I am is right at the beginning of it
A7A7  C majorC   G+G       C majorC
All I know, I was born with
A7A7     C majorC     G+G     A7A7    C majorC      G+G
Where she is, she is fixed in a prison so fast, she is frozen
  A7A7   C majorC       G+G    C majorC
The air she breathes is a slow wind

Verse 5:
C majorC               A7A7
I'm a tired arachnid, spinning loose in my threads
     A minorAm      G+G    C majorC
Building lifetimes of gossamer beds
C majorC           A7A7
And the filigree water drops around my head
   A minorAm      G+G      C majorC
They absorb every word that I said

Verse 6:
C majorC      A minorAm         C majorC
There are no wings hitched to my spine
G+G            C majorC
Just an undying urge to climb
C majorC              A7A7
And I'll wait for my mother, supposing she'd bother
A minorAm       G+G     A7A7
To hold me and keep me a while
C majorC       G+G     A7A7
To hold me and keep me a while
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